Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Beha'alotcha - Part 2

I you all right now yesterday we're on page seven I think 780 page 780 and yesterday we have been speaking about the the cloud covering the the what across there's a few points so when a the one that we want to see over here yesterday we spoke about the lithium and the day the idea that they were initiated into the service by being shaved remember he spoke about that they were shaved they shaved all the hair on their body and here represents all the excesses of life that that they have to do way with the excesses but that there are certain parts of the body where the hair is that shaved because even when you were involved in communal service you cannot neglect you can't collect your own family you have to make sure that you don't neglect your own family is actually a beautiful start over moshe feinstein much if i get you was a much of feinstein was have you heard her at much a fine city was like that he was essentially the Haluk decider of the Jewish people was died in 1985 there were 300 about 250,000 people at his funeral as a as their motor function whereas at his funeral their 25th hour of someone's dominar bought through 300,000 people there's even a secular policeman there there a second policeman was overheard saying if I knew there would be the myths many people at my funeral I would drop dead on the spot you know so a remote you find Sita was essentially the holodeck designer Jewish people now his son rabbi reuven is ahead of you Shivan New York also one of leaders today is one of the leaders of generation and when his son Ribeiro vane was making your Bar Mitzvah for his son another the rostral finds his grandson so he said it reb moshe finds he was not able to be at the bar mitzvah because there was a meeting so sort of meeting of the leading torah committee you know she finds he couldn't be at the sons of hermann Sid his grandsons were mitsis somebody asked his son or roommate how did you feel about the fact that your your father was an a at the bar mitzvah she said look it was obviously hard for me but you know my father has communal obligations he's got he's carrying the Jewish people on his shoulders essentially and I appreciate the fact that he wasn't able to be there if he wasn't there he has a good reason to be there but I also know that my father loves me and if he couldn't be there than I mean he wanted to be there he just couldn't be there so the the the interviewers that's about it you know your father loved you they said well first of all you know when I was a kid I used to go up to the catskills every summer and my father had a regular learning session with my father and once a day there was a wagon a hay wagon that came into the in to deliver something to the camp and I like to get her ride on that wagon one day the wagon came in a little earlier than normal and I was in the middle of learning with my father my father said to be the wagons her go right on the wagon will make up the learning later because he knew they enjoyed it that was number one number two we always had very big people very big rabbis a Jewish activists were always at our home for shabbos toroids with us because her father you know so many people were very in demand but no matter who was that our home for shabbos I was the youngest child no matter who the high official I always sat next to my father and Chavez otherwise sat me next to me number three when we go we're living in New York the morning was very chilly my father would wake me up in the morning was very cold in the apartment in winter and my father would take my pants and he would take he would put my pants on the radiator to warm them up and then he would dress me under the blanket so that I shouldn't have to suffer from the cold in the house he would dress me on her legs I know my father loved me so if the father couldn't be there because of communal obligations it wasn't because he had his kept priorities confuses because he obviously couldn't be there that's a very important lesser people or what you're involved in in life and especially if you're involved in pursuit of things that are not could be dull obligations for example money make sure we had a guy get a kid story about a guy as a lawyer and he gets a phone call one day he says hi who is he says is that it's me it's yitzy he says everything okay so yeah he's where are you so I'm at the park across the street from your office this is why are you calling me so dad look I've been trying to talk to you for the last three weeks in for the last three weeks you're always busy and every time to talk today by notice of whatever your phone rings that you always have time to answer you talk to people on the phone so I figured about sir a target is on the picanha on the phone so it's an important lesson in life an important lesson in life is that they you're there's another kid was asked by his father would he want to be when you grow up he's an airplane pilot she said why he's is because your dad you're always traveling maybe that way I'll get to spend a little more time with you that's not something you want to hear from your kid you know there was the other kid who always used to play you guys to go visit old mr. Murphy next door and he would be there do errands for mr. Murphy and everything else in one day his father said to you why do you do it he says he pays me so what does he pay us as he pays me attention it's not what you want to hear from your father from your kid right and therefore you after this with the Third's teach you make sure you got your priorities make sure you got your priorities straight okay now take a look somebody had any question over there good yes what we had mentioned yesterday was the idea that the LA viam who are put into the divine service so the hare is something that we don't really you know you can see some people could live very well without it and whether by choice or otherwise but but hair is kit regarded as excess we cut the hair and Jewish life here is generally short for men especially here a short you foresaw of hologic problems if you have too much hair right on top so then it becomes a separation between the fillin and the head you don't have to shave your head down but it shouldn't be that the tefillin is sitting on a layer bouncing around as opposed to it should be sitting properly properly on the hair number one number till we mentioned the idea that the hair is the excess represents you could cut your hair without it pay without it being painful and the hair represents the excesses of life that the lithium are going to be now controlling themselves not to be involved how that affects you see nothing the nut off excellent question the reason the Nazeer grosses here another very good those are from last week's parts of the reason does it grosses here is not the show they to the contrary the nother is abstained from line he's growing his hair because he's showing neglect for his physical appearance as well that means he doesn't groom himself he's not allowed to Kobe go to pull any hair out there for can't comb his hair it shows a ignoring his grooming as opposed to being involved in the excess to the country than others the beard Kabbalistic Lee there are two reasons for the other that we don't shave our beards the first reason is the basic reason according to halacha which is that a Jew amia jewish man is not allowed to run a blade on his face so there there are five basically five points on the face which are approximately one two three four and five we don't know exactly where they are and therefore the allah and since we're not allowed to run an open blade over those five points so we don't shave with a razor at all that's why we let the beard grow now you can use a scissors action the reason behind it i think somebody has nothing the u.s. yesterday any other class why we don't use the razor somebody asked something just answer it was like that one that the idea is the basic idea i'm not using razors it was somebody else yesterday i think it was one of the rights of the idol worshipping priest that's what the commentaries explained and therefore we don't follow their right to use a blade the the monks always were clean-shaven off in hand you know they're often they even called it he really called a gala a priest is called a gala gala Caligula has to shave because they were they were shaved clean they were shaved clean and one of the ideas here is first of all there's a hollow hey concern always no matter how spurred shall we get gentlemen there's always a hella high concern first first the letter of the law then we worry about the spirit of law the letter of the law says that you can't run a blade over your face a scissors action is permissible and a hair remover a chemical hair remover is permissible so for some menus a shaver shaver is a spinning head it has a grid so if the hair is between the grid and then you got a spinning blade cutting it against the grid on the shaver so then it's really a sisters actually just electric electric scissors actually which is perfectly permissible the problem with some shavers is some chamber they even called electric razors because the way they work is the blade the spinning blade actually pushes out a little bit between higher than the grid and its really chopping the hair out of the face as opposed to cutting it in a scissors actually those types of shavers are problematic from a holic point of view there's a there's also a chemical there's also a chemical there's a soul fir baste chemical a powder which from guys use they don't want to use any razor at all from being often from your Shiva guys you ever smell that I my brother came back from your Shiva he had gone off the ship they become real from he came back home and I remembered periodically in the house I didn't know our way to three in a regular three-story 33 level house in Chicago and periodically there's a terrible smell in the house and I didn't know what it was cut me it would happen in period then I realized it was happening every Friday when my brother went down to the basement to take his weekly shave he put this stuff all over his face any kind of inter you wash it off in the stuff is sulfur it smells like you're at the Dead Sea and the whole house is permeated with this odor a I don't know what was it with it is annoys you know I'm saying also did your inner train eat supper doll so you get to smell you know where is that coming from and I was realized what's coming it was happening every Friday when my brother go down for his weekly shape it gives you a great shave and sometimes if it shaves off a couple layers of skin to it burns you know it burns like sulfur and if you have any cuts or anything yeah you know it's not a great experience so but that is the idea behind not shaving with a razor now the beard has a certain Kabbalistic idea that the beard is considered that it's called in in Kabbalistic terms the dick the kadesha the Holy beard and therefore there are those who don't touch their beards all you find by how bad that they don't they won't touch the beard at all there are many who won't shave they try to curl it up and they curl it up underneath and they don't shave the beard now the beard the idea of the beard or on a deeper level is we now know with scientific instruments that hair is hollow if you take employ if you'd put a strand of hair under a microscope you'll see that ultimately it's hollow the hair is hollow right and and in the in its rich referred to in Kabbalistic terms is that scene arose the conduits which spread the influence so there is a cabalistic depth to the the beard in at what o'clock now there's there's there's a more basic idea also a deeper idea but I think it more applies to us and it goes back to Lavine as well about the cydia not shaving the face you see one of the commentaries points out a remain of a high when a classic commenters who was a disciple of the Ramban you've heard of the humanities who's one of the quantities disciples serve animal cases like this you see the we have five senses a human being is it may have five senses we have a sense of smelling hearing tasting touching and seeing now those five senses are all concentrated right in this area over here if you stop and think about it sense of sight sense of hearing sense of smell a sense of tasting in the sense of touch because your tongue is the most sensitive touching organ in the body if you ever have a splinter you can't touch it with your finger or your tongue right because your tongue is much more sense of the the sensors at the tip of the tongue you actually magnify the thing that's why if you have a cavity and you touch it with your tongue you think you got a you think you got a cave in there you know and when you look at it when they see the dental it's picture just likes a little hole your tongue you actually magnifies it if you're trying to reach the edge of scotch tape and you can't find the edge of scotch tape so those who are sophisticated put it in their mouth in order to find the edge where to scotch tape right is that true that's where this guy because the tongue is very sensitive now those five senses are are right in this area so the rabinovitch I hate says as follows he suggests the following the prohibition of shaving with a razor in Torah terms is called hash casa hash casa means total destruction removal total doing away with rina shape with the shaver you don't get a smoother shave you shave with a razor with the cream and you shave with a razor you get a much smoother shape that idea that bourbon evoke i says the tour is trying to tell us don't shave with a razor that means Judaism is now about doing away with your senses totally that's aren't we are not a religion of asceticism we are a religion of using our senses but controlling them not doing away with our senses therefore we don't shave with a razor symbolically the area of the five senses that we're not doing away with their senses we're not priests we're not Catholic priest Judaism does not believe in that and therefore the idea behind it is that we make use of it that's what the commentaries explain I was once a little kid I walked into a Jewish I running by my data a Father's Day gift our birthday gift I forgot what it was so I walked into the local Jewish pharmacy they weren't religious I was a you know we were raised shomer shabbos I wasn't it was in the middle of winter i had my ski cap on and I walk in and I said to lady I think I was about 11 years old tenure so I said boy did I want to buy my day at something you know something for shaving so the lady is Jewish and she looks as well as your father use a brush meaning a blade you know the father you dressed i said well i think soaked i know my father uses brush to clean out his shaver so i said well i think so as i said it i pulled off my ski cap because get warm and my yarn work on his feet looked at me she goes no no your father does he use a brush she said here are these your father k be some sort of cologne my brother went to buy my mother he my brother the ways of war we don't talk about he bought my mother chewing tobacco for Mother's Day he thought he thought she'd appreciate it you know the ball player I'll chew tobacco so he thought he's he's the man he's the one we don't we don't talk about he's a rabbi Ya Ya good there is an idea that the beard there's a do they I don't know about that but there is an idea that the beard covers up to jaws which are used in eating which is the most animal behavior of a human being a physic physical behavior in there for the it covers up there something about that but I don't know about you know just a distant it take to cover the jaws a little bit while we there's something about it but I feel that the other which all of which is valid you know it's all bad I just feel that the other idea is a good reminder for us Judaism doesn't say deprived you and says control that's a very very important lesson always okay now let's take a look take a look at a verse para cued para cute babe okay it's on page I'm sorry I'm sorry I went too far edge of our para que pasa pasa Coffey 825 825 in here it starts on page 776 it's like this vibrational motion late more towards the bottom of a three lines for the bottom of page 776 when average have emotional labor God says the most of the following zose a shirt Olivia this is the way you should this is regarding the Levites meet BAM himesh the SEM shun of amalah from 25 years in on yoville eats lots of herbivorous omoide at 25 years old they begin the service now Rashi right here points out you take a look at this left column of Raschi two lines from the bottom me Ben kamesh the asteroid left column two lines of the bottom says Rashi me bein come a classroom at 25 years old Hoover Malcolm I here Omer there's another verse previously that says me Ben shluchim Shana that they started the service at 30 years old so it seems like the tour is contradicting himself which obviously it can't possibly be ha Kate side how do you reconcile these two seemingly contradictory versus be Ben Esther yvette hall mesh ba lil mo da loja at 25 years old he comes to study a vote up to learn the service in the base of English the low made huh may shun him he's got to get his undergrad right five years plus a year of a plus a year of his to get his master's right hey I mean it's no less than any other other any other area of scholarship so first he has to learn es a study the laws a lot of laws of the base of English who bench law same Shana ovate and at 30 years old he begins the divine service at 30 years old he begins the divine service McConnell at alma de la raza vinyasa maybe she's also the commish on him shishu they know Roy so from here we have a principle that a disciple who has studied for five years it just doesn't seem to making and make a breakthrough he's not going to make that breakthrough ok that's difficult that's a different subject exactly how to that determination but the tour is telling you that there were two stages for lady first he had to learn what you were doing now what happens when he serves bottom line bottom line on page 776 Umi been commissioned Shana yo shoes meets lahav Oda and at 20 at 50 years old he is retired mandatory retirement at 50-below yea vote Oda he does not serve any more at 50 years old the strength starts to diminish from 30 to 50 a person in his peak strength yet 50 the strength begins the physical strength starts to diminish so what is this Lavy do who's now 15 years old we don't just put him out to pasture what does he do this shay ray says F of 0 helmet he serves his brother he serves with his with his colleagues in omoide leash mamish Maris he how does arts go translated to safeguard the charge valvo tolyatti doesn't serve couplet on salvia nemorosa that's what you should do for the Liam in their watches now comes along the rashi and Raschi says so what does he do take a look at the right column on page 778 two lines from the top and then we'll try to understand what's really going on here says Rashi right column at seven 77 78 right column two lines from the top the low yea vote says Rashi what doesn't he do I vote does Master because if he never he no longer carries the heavy things on his shoulders above closer who'll in the Alaska are amigos to lock the gates the sheer to sing goleta Nogales in to load the wagons but as a carry things on his shoulder okay now when the counters points out is a very interesting thing okay you have the basic command of the Torah 25 years are into the service 50 years old you're retired from the heavy labor turned it over to the youngsters you take care of locking the gates you do the singing in the base of the odium saying in the base let me know say the commentaries their sources that say that just hearing the lithium sing in the base of meals you've either the person to do Chuba which obviously means it sounded somewhat different than music nowadays certainly rap Olivia me wrap a wrap was meant to rev you know the love Eamon of is referring to inspire you to be good it was yeah we're never getting political I'm just being real you know you know something to hear that sometimes you you hear the ramp what's that yeah I'm sure they will put that into the base of a go soon but the the the class like the classic rap you know which gets you to go and break a car windshield you know or shoot a cop you know I'm talking about gangster I guess I'm talking about ok ok I just brought up as an example but the whenever it is a lithium see in the base of media she actually inspire you to do Chiba the beauty of their singing could actually get it there is a very deep spiritual a very big de suite spiritual level it's like when you hear in chelan lado de sometimes Friday night so that I think that everybody is touched by hearing the hodo d unless you're sleeping with other people are doing and show on Friday night you're tired listen but but the hability does move many of us say you know if you're a good you know if you hear a good tune but the idea here is this files when the commentaries points out you know the olivium are people who are involved in the divine service their people aren't involved in in in in in religious service and sometimes in life you know when you get religious fervor religious fervor could sometimes carry you a little further than it really should sometimes the people present yet so so religiously fired up that he forgets he's living in a world with other people and it becomes what I call a religious mr. Magoo you know he leaves a trail of disaster behind him in his religious pursuits and you remember mr. Magoo is this cartoon character who could barely see and everywhere he goes everywhere he goes people are get you know behind him there's a trail of disaster and sometimes the person gets so fervent about his religion that he forgets that he's living in a world with other people and has to be controlled and I'll tell you in a second and and so the lady if fifty years old what does he do he gets into he's involved in what rashi calls the e lascia are him closing the gates that means with me shirdi in life you learn how to turn it on and how to turn it off you know when to close the gates a person has to know sometimes the nature of religion see what happens they the ones that an experiment in a college with secular secular Jewish students they told them draw a picture I think of 10 7 or 10 items that represent Judaism so why did they draw you know they draw us safer Torah and they draw a menorah and they drew what they call it a a mezuzah and they drew tefillin you know they do attend items everything nobody drew a picture of somebody picking up somebody who's fallen on the ground nobody drew a picture of somebody putting money in a pushka nobody drew a man-to-man relationship because when we think of religion we think of a chauffeur right you think of a menorah right that's what they got religion you think of a religious representation after remember that Virginia ism is two-dimensional Judaism anthikad Judaism man to man and to your fellow man so sometimes a person because they want to be so devoted their devotions show themselves they manifest themselves more in their me and to God than man to me and because it's a more of an identifiable really so for example if a guy sitting and a quiet plane true story guys sitting on a quiet plane is the first day of the month of l ol and he Dobbins and it's about four in the morning and he puts on his tefillin a dive in chakras and then he decides to carry out the Jewish tradition of blowing a chauffeur on the first month of L oh right so playing air there they're sitting on a plane and all of a sudden oh you know I mean nowadays it nowadays you know there's no question get arrested yeah yeah yeah you know yeah yeah there's no question I think I blow the shofar up later so I call a religious mr. Magoo you know he go I got a panic you could cause on a plane with something like that or a guy told me is it this is a guy could use imagine the joke of it all is that one of the verses associate ism there's a puck that says when it comes to doing chuva guru you shany machinist Oh Waco sleepers from your slumber and he fulfill that one to the letter and we had it on a play somebody was it's over and it's a maze I could get just the magic I heard that I was laughing so hard all right said I heard about another guy I think I was it a guy was this guy they told me he was a student here in eve chevy told me went to a certain get you went to a certain house for shabbos and it was spent shabbos with a young couple he wakes a guy wakes up at five o'clock in the morning if I forgot good morning has to go to the bathroom so he woke to open his door and his door is locked from the outside he's trying to both dark can't get the door he starts knocking quietly nothing not a sound senator knocking knocking he's waiting somebody in Knox dock waiting an hour passes to three hours past eight o'clock the Olsen here's click the doors unlocked from the outside what happened what happened the the person he was staying with the man decided that he wants to go down at the Nate's pinion which is beautiful but if he leaves the house that creates a holic problem of the hood between the guests and the wife so the obviously the logical thing is incarcerate your yes behind in his room and go off and be at Attic right that's a religious mr. Magoo either dive in nate's or don't dominate so I don't like guests into that's what i mean by religious mr. you so focus i don't you forget your you've got tunnel vision so it takes a certain maturity to know when to turn it on and when to turn it off if that's what symbolic about the guy at 50 years old you close the gates meaning you have the control over the religious fervor of the 25 year old or 30 year old if fifty years old you're a little more a little more mature about things you'll see gentlemen and life in general even independent of religion even independent of religion you just see raising a family also the older you get you realize don't don't make an issue out of everything you don't push their don't be it's not a disaster everything when you're younger with kids it looks like a disaster as you get older let it go it'll pass there are also people they also don't want to get messed up oh yeah just relax a little bit dusan take a Senate if you don't it just relax at the age of 15 no no no no no at the age of 50 don't know physical age of 50 ya know he's only using it's only a wedding cards only a symbolic idea doesn't mean they're in the division these are staying at the age of 50 / you know just you're right it does just say just a symbolic ID okay somebody's really conscientiously like trying to turn lake with like step back from Judaism at 50 of this dolphin no no don't step back from Judea never step back from Judaism just get yourself under control that's all there's a person answer so it's important they have a rabbi have somebody look as a mentor to let you know when you're getting a little too when you're getting a little too i the classic examples of guy trying to kiss the safer tour and elbows you in the head on the way you know you know you know guys tried because I have to kiss tutoria but they're also people at your way don't know grab a stroll cylinder one said they've got the great founder of the mooser movement he said a person in his haste person could be running to do is Mitzvah and he tramples the entire world on the way and it's important thing to remember you have to remember there are people in there people in your world as well now yeah obviously if the halacha its I love again he can't can't compromise how long for the sake of people but you have to sometimes work it out you have to figure out how to do there's a guy give a guy a beautiful story Shiva guy his father had passed away and his mother wanted him to come home for the Yom Kippur deafening and diving in their in their local bhalobasha salt and the son said to his Russia Shiva and I said I really want to stay in the Shiva yeshivah Davenham for Russia shani Yom Kippur run for a spiritual diving then where he's going to find it home in the receivers said yeah but you have admits it to honor your mother that's at orica man you said yeah but my spiritual damn he says when you do emit so that spirituality spirituality is in how you feel spirituality is at what you determine spiritualist virtuality is when you do the right thing then you're being spiritual spirituality is doing the dishes on motzei shabbos is one of most spiritual things you will ever do gentlemen sorry so I'm a spiritual thing you should do whether you will do it or not I don't know but to do the dishes and what's a shop is for your wife is a very spiritual thing to watch the kids and rosh hashanah morning because your wife wakes up with a fever instead of going to Sheol and diving is one of my spiritual things you will ever do you're not gonna feel good about it necessarily that's spirituality to get up in the morning and smile and say good morning to your wife is spirituality that spirituality to do what you feel good about feeling good is that an indication in this religion we hope you feel good we hope you feel good to yeah well I feel good I really want to do that mrs. are sometimes people confuse priorities so many abandons a wife whose husband comes home on a Thursday night is imagine this scenario wife comes home husband comes on Thursday night this is a standard scenario many religious homes husband learns like thursday night traditionally ship as they have a mission mer and you stay out late SI como in about eleven thirty at night twelve o'clock at night you one o'clock at night he walk over to the refrigerator and you open up the refrigerator and there's a fresh pie in the refrigerator right hello you know that's a that's a good 1130pm snack any house you reach for this for this apple pie the voice of the one you know your why I know how they know this you know she was in a heavy slumber and I open up the refrigerator or else in her voice' don't touch the pie is heard of goldstein's kiddush this weekend show oh and they catch your right you got three into how they do that she's in a slumber she looks like she's absolutely drugged you no no don't touch the way to go you know as a you're standing there frozen you know until you pull yeah ok so what can I eat well you're there are some crackers and why is calling me right so now what no let me a pretty gold sees kid is you know that's terrific rounding I wouldn't get anywhere near the table cuz you know okay so what should a wife Lou if she wants to be certain of what should have wiped and that what will wife do she should take eat the pile make another one tomorrow because their first responsibilities or her husband what should you the husband do you the husband should say oh you know banish the thought you know I don't want to inconvenience so you both have obligations but her obligation is because she wants into look I want to do a mitzvah I want to help the gold seats oh you want to admit sir why do a mitzvah you want to do a mitzvah help me I'm the husband that's the biggest bit so a woman has you want to do a midst of the missus that help for the guy down the block because he asks you can you help me I need I need help jump-starting my car moving some stuff out of my apartment the big is all you I says yeah but i need help i need help with the kids that's your midst it's a bigger so that's your first obligation and so yeah but nobody's going to know about it right when you're home helping with the wife and kids you don't get any awards for that nobody Pat's you on the back nobody says who you wanted sadak you are right your-your-your your ear what ago there's old there's no what I call there's no prestige in there yeah that's right so difficult but that's your obligation that spirituality yes r obvious I heard about a guy who kept coming I was studying in co lo unico Lola's here we're married men study and there was a period he started coming late to the colo and the head of the Cole said I mean oh hi I'm right why are you coming late everybody says ready I'll tell you the truth I know a woman she's alone with six kids and every morning I help her out he says wow that's beautiful while they would have met slices who is this woman does my wife that's that's the priority in life the other guy comes a charity collector one of these shabbos organizations he comes a very wealthy man he says listeners a poor family in town we could use they really hurting you know we could use a serious donation she says sure rabbi no problem he pulls out a chase those who should I make the check out to does your brother you know busy helping the world you're busy helping oh yeah what about you know what about the nearest and dearest and that one doesn't feel as good right I don't care about your feeling I hope you feel good is that that's net the determining factor in Judaism and irony of life is by the way when you do the dishes amounts a shabbos would you just stay home and help your wife your kids would you write I checked everybody you do feel good afterwards because then you know inside that you did the right thing it's only getting there and getting through it because usually you do it you do it you're doing then that last dish you just throw it all right I did it just blew the whole thing yeah right well there's also yeah but it's worse than it so that's the biggest bit so yeah ok now I'm going to show you another point here take a look take a look at period base page 782 my dad rash of emotion of our page 782 it's uh five lines from the top I say Lukesh take hot sorceress kessef make two trumpets of silver miksa Tasso some make sure beads that I don't know I translates at them hammered out mitra means that they should be made out of one piece you start with one piece of one block of material any hammer it out as opposed to taking individual pieces of putting them together that's why calls hammered out because if he says if you want to make Trump inside of one block you're going to hammer out to it till you make the trumpet okay and the what well it's a skill it's a craftsmanship you know whatever you're using a chisel whatever it is but you're starting with one block of material you're making this trumpet the hi you look hella micro ha ada you're going to use it to summon the congregation lamasa SI mikanos into cause the cams to travel i mean so much for Boehner wants to call people together I mean you got stopped to think you've got among the Jewish people add in the desert the be if their men were 20 between 20 and 60 there were 600,000 men and then you have them parallel amount of women and you have older people younger people so the estimations there were two two and a half billion people there and now you want to call you know how long you know how long a camp like that takes up you know how much how wide the Jewish camp was stay mystery mill stay misery mill is apparently you know it's a good few miles of tents and camps at baby atonia filling people's a lot of people in most cities in the United States I think there are only nine cities in the United States they'd have over a million people in within the city limits and China they're about Phil over 50 I've been the United States there are there are nine cities that have over a million people moving people a lot of people and talk about two two and a half million people the Jewish people any want to call them all together how do you call them all together so you sound the trumpets and there were different sounds that were made for differently if you want the people to assemble if you want the elders to assemble if you want to give a signal to start traveling different types of sounds that were made with the trumpet that's the that's the wedding called it's the the basic idea and that's what the Torah is going to describe your if you blow one trumpet if you blow to drop that's what goes on in this paragraph over here now I want you to see a Raschi very also a very pertinent idea here top light a sale aha make for yourself trumpets so top line of Rashi she utopian the phonetic amela they should blow the trumpets in front of you like a king mo strabane according to many commentaries he had he had the status of the king of the Jewish people but the puss excessive aeb shuuran Melek I've ever heard the words in the puzzle asurane which is the Jewish people there was a king now look at the next spot line of Rashi I say look ha Michel huh the material should come from you you provide the material and then Raschi says like this I say look ha what is the Torah emphasizing make for yourself why does the torah just say I say make trumpets why I say make for you trumpets obviously the word look law has to be teaching something says Rashi I 20 set amidst a mesh mem you make them and make use of them below ah here the next leader isn't going to make use of your trumpets the next leader is going to have his own set of trumpets he doesn't use your trumpets now what does that mean moshe ben is leader to people he has trumpets to call out to the people the next leader uses a different set of trumpets so one of the common explanations here have heard from several several different areas several different sources every generation has its own message and a leader needs to know how to communicate with his people the trumpets that one leader uses the sound one leader makes is not the same sound that another leader makes every generation has a different thing that makes it tick when the 70s let's go back even earlier than that let's go back to the 1800s what was the drive of the generate intellectual accomplishment Jews were being drawn away from Judaism through intellectual temptation was called the Enlightenment there's wisdom out the secular world as well what do you have to get involved in Judaism for what do you study the Talmud for if there's so much wisdom out there in the 70s of his philosophy people searching for truth for philosophy give me something and like materialism had worn out because America became very America already materialism had already reached its zenith and then he had the age of the hippies in the hippies right you know the hippies in the impious came along if its motto was do your own thing man as long as your own thing is wearing blue jeans and in a pullover shirt you know then do your own thing or so my own thing is wearing a suit and diet that doesn't count do your own thing man as long as your own thing is my thing that was it was really underlying it so instead the hippies were fighting against the materialistic establishment they would go into a the hippies would go into a store and they would shoplift the jar of peanut butter but they say we're liberating the peanut butter it was liberate to peterborough liberate a brick of cheese we're liberating it from the establishment pig said so there was the motto and hippies in our generation is it different is that our generation I believe that the call to the people is that hedonism doesn't work the qualitative people nowadays just tell me something sanity we live in a world of insanity show me sanity in this world when a girl could say to a friend of hers when I date a guy I ask myself is this the man I want my children to spend every other weekend with right that's a world of insanity it's a world of insanity the world's falling apart the world is drug infested it's an immorality infested so the message of the generation that calls out in one generates not the same message a leader has to know the language of this way rabbi acid a language of his congregants what is the message what are these people searching for what makes them tick that's the different trumpets the symbolism of the different troubling motor ave no calls out with his trouble the next leader you're going to have a different challenge in a different generation in our generation technology generation how do you get people away from their machines how do you get people a way to give up to people should walk around doing this even when they don't have the machine in front of them there you know that there's did was that it's a look at me by Z now that you know used to be a guys talking to himself you know you know you thought the guy was a Michigan and nowadays the guys not talking himself he's a Michigan her half the time I get into a cab the cab driver is talking so you can't kid man he's not talking to me he's talking he's got the thing in his ear he's talking he's talking somebody else on the phone you know people walk the streets talking I don't feel so bad if I memorize which nights in the streets anymore you know you could talk to yourself I could practice this year or a talk that I'm gonna give I could practice talking to myself not self-conscious why you know everybody talks about it the different date you know it's a different generate it's a different generation that's the that's the message return okay we'll continue tomorrow we have to talk to my a little bit about the traveling